A few years back Scotty decided to paint our oak cabinets white. So, him and a few friends took a weekend and tackled the project. They looked great....at first. In the past year or so the paint has started chipping, the parts that still have paint on them have turned to a lovely brownish whitish color...you can see hand prints, food and juice spills...they just aren't pretty anymore. It happens when there are 3 meals cooked daily and 8 little hands that can't seem to walk past them without touching them! So, the time has come for the long tedious project to be re-done. We've been talking about doing this for a while now, but, couldn't really decide on a color. Okay, maybe decide isn't the right word...we couldn't really agree on a color! He wanted to paint the cabinets green! Are you kidding me? Green!?!?!? Absolutely not. No way. We. Are. Not. Painting. Them. Green!!
Tucker had an appointment at UNC on Friday (I will do a post about him soon - we have another couple of appointments next week and then I'll update!) so Scotty and I took him to that and my mom offered to keep the other 3 kids over night for us! So, it began. When we got home we put Tucker to bed and got started. We had no idea just what we were getting ourselves into. This time, Scotty decided he wanted to tackle it alone - he wanted it to be done just right and just his way so he wanted to do it alone! I have helped some, but mostly I have "worked" on keeping the kids out of the kitchen - and by the way, that is quite a tough job! So far he has put 42 hours of sanding and painting into our cabinets. They are looking great but, he is so ready to be done and I am so ready to have my kitchen back...
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| Still White....well, kinda white! |
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| Cabinet Doors Coming Off.... | |
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| Sanding Away. This took the longest...hours and hours and hours! |
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| Starting on the last cabinet door....at least the first coat! |
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| Almost finished with the first coat!!! |
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| A floor full of cabinets that need to dry! |
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As you can imagine keeping my four frogs (also known as children) off of "Lily pads in the pond".... aka...wet green cabinets on the kitchen floor is not the easiest job! We have spent lots of time at my grandma's house! While there, I have been able to work on the kid's fall outfits for our family pictures coming up which has been fun and the kids have got lots of time to do "whatever they want" because that seems to pretty much be the rule at Gigi's! Wink!
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| Dylan and Tucker coloring pretty pictures for Gigi's fridge! |
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| Madi, Dustin and Gigi working on coloring a picture of Mickey Mouse! |
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| The beginning stages of Tuck's fall outfit for our family pictures! |
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| Dustin's shirt! |
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This weekend some of our good friends from Kentucky are coming to stay for a night and can't wait for them to be here....hopefully my kitchen will no longer be a pond with lily pads, but, a kitchen with beautiful new GREEN cabinets! And, yes, for the record - I finally agreed on green and I just l-o-v-e them!
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. - Ephesians 5:24
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